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SAFE 0R VAULT.

(Application filed Aug. 8, 1902.)

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JAMES PATON, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SAF; 0R VAULT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters `Patent No. 713,142, dated November 11, 1902.

Application flied Aigue s, 19o?.A

T0 a/ZZ whom/Vit may concern;

Be it known that I, JAMES PATON, a citizen of the United States,v residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safes or Vaults, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to safes and vaults; and the object of my invention is to provide improved means of mounting, operating, adjusting, and locking the door.

My invention is shown in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is afront elevation of a safe `or vault door, showing the door closed. Fig. 2 is a View showing the interior of the safe or vault shown in Fig. 1 and showing a part of the inner plate of the door removed. Fig. 3 is a sectional View of the safe and part of the door upon the line m of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view showing the manner ot' attaching the hinge to the body of the safe or vault.y Fig. 5 is a sectional view showing the manner of interposin g the retaining-bolts between the female screw-ring and the body of the safe or vault.

Like figures refer to corresponding parts in the several views.

In the drawings, 1 is the body of the safe or vault, which may be of any suitable form and constructed in any suitable manner and of any suitable material, but preferably of a hard material, such as manganese steel.

The body of the safe shown has a round door-opening, thejam'b of which is provided with a single annular step'. Fitting into the door-opening is a door the body 2 of which is made, preferably, of a metal of similar composition with the body of the safe. Cast into the hard body 2 of the door is an inner ring 3 and an outer ring 4, both of a soft metal. Y

The body of the safe is provided with a recess or channel, which extends around the door-opening, as` shown in Fig. 3. EX- tending from the door-opening into the recess 5 are a series of channels, as shownv at 6 in Fig. 5, to permit the introduction of retaining-bolts 7 between the female scre'wrin g andl the safe-body.

Attached tothe body of the safe is a ring Serial. No. 118,367. (No model.) y

orv plate 8 of any suitable form having a mutilated female screw-thread. The ring or plate 8 is held firmly in place and may be adj usted by means of bolts 7, the heads of which rest against the inner wall of the recess 5. The ring S is preferably engaged by the washers 9, which lare held by the nuts 10, which are screwed onto the bolts 7. If desired, instead of a single recess 5 extending around the door-opening there may be a series of pockets orrecesses, as shownoin Fig. 5, with corresponding channels 6 from the door-opening to admit the retaining-bolts 7, the heads of which will be held inthe pockets.

`W'here the body of the safe is cast in one piece, the female screw-ring 8 willnecessarily be made in sections to admit the ring into the door-opening in the construction of the safe. A ring 11, provided with a mutilated male screw-thread, is attached to the hard body of the door by means of screwsv12, which screw into the soft-metal ring 3 of the door. The mutilated male screw-thread upon the ring 11 is adapted to'interlock with the female screwthread of the ring 8.

While inthe drawings the screw-threads shown as mutilated, the screw-threads upon -the rings may be continuous, if desired, ora

series of interlocking lugs located upon the rings 8 and l1 may be substituted for the mutilated male and female screw-threads shown in the drawings. Plates 13 and 14 are fastened to the door by screws 15 and 16, which enter the soft metal ring 3. Supported by the plates 13 and 14 is a disk 17, which is connected with bolts 18 by means of crank-levers 19. tial revolution of the disk 17, are shot through openings inthe male screw-ring into corresponding bolt-openings in the female screwring. The disk 17 is vactuated by a suitable automatic device connected with pin 20 and located on the outside of plate 13, but not shown in the drawings. A 'ring21is attached to the body of the door by screws 22, which enter the soft-metal ring 4 bn the outside of the door-body 2. The body of the door is supported by a swinging crane-hinge 23,

The bolts 18, by the par- J -upon the male and female screwrings are IOO which is attached to the hard safe-body by means of screws 24, which enter into softmetal inserts 25`in the safe-body, as shown in Fig. 4. The ring 2l upon the door engages rollers 26, which may be supported by the hinge 23, as shown in the drawings, Fig. l, or in any other suitable manner.

The safe show-n is provided with suitable gear mechanism, consisting of rack-teeth 28, located upon the inner surface of the ring 2l, and agear o1' pinion 27, which is in mesh with the rack-teeth 28 and is supported by outside plate 29 of the door, as is shown in Fig. l. By means of the bolts 7 the female screw-ring 8 may be readily adjusted, so that the lnale screw-threads of the door-ring 1l will engage the female screw-threads of the ring 8. When the door shown is inserted in the doorway and rotated, the mutilated male and female screw-threads will engage and the door will be drawn with great pressure into the doorway and firmly held against withdrawal. While I prefer that soft-metal rings be embedded in the hard portion of the door for the purpose of holding the male' screw-ring and outer ring, inserted pieces of soft metal of different form may be substituted, if desired. XVhen the door is closed, the bolts 18 are shot into the bolt-openings in the ring 8 and further rotation of the door is prevented. Where the safe-body is formed as shown in Fig. 3, annularshoulders 30 and 3l are formed adjacent to recess 5, thus decreasi'ng the bearing-surface to be ground to [it the mutilated screw-ring 8, and effecting thereby a decrease in the cost of tting the screw-ring to the safe-body over the cost where the safe is constructed without the recess 5.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the door of hard unmachineable metal may be connected with a safe or vault body of similar metal and provided with means for adjusting and looking the same and all done readily Aand at moderate cost.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. 4In combination, a safe-body having a round door-opening and an annular shoulder adjacent to the opening, and a female screwring engaging the annular shoulder of the safe-body and held by retaining-bolts intel'- posed between the screw-rin g and body of the safe and having heads which are held in pockets in the safe-body adjacent to its door-opening, substantially as shown and described.

2. In combination, a safe-body of hard unmachineable metal having a circular dooropening and a recess surrounding the dooropening, and a ring having a mutilated female screw-thread and engaging an annular shoulder in the safe-body adjacent to the recess and held by bolts interposed between the screw-ring and safe-body and having heads which are held in the recess in the safe-body, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. In combination, a safe-body of hard unmachineable material, havinga circular dooropening surrounded by avrecess forming an annular shoulder adjacent to the door-opening, a mutilated female screw-ring engaging the annular shoulder of the safe-body and held by bolts interposed between the screwring and safe-body and having heads which are held in the recess in the safe-body, and a round door adapted to fit and turn in the door-opening and having on its inner surface a ring provided with a mutilated male screw adapted to engage and interlock with the mutilated female screw-ring attached to the safe-body substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JAMES PATON.

Witnesses:

JOHN N. WELD, E. E. BRooKs. 

